Legal Opinion
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. Town of Morristown
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 20, 1928No. 147PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
October 30, 1924, petitioner brought this suit in the district court of New Jersey against the Town of Morris-town and sixteen operators of taxicabs to restrain the town from enforcing an ordinance establishing a public hackstand in a driveway on petitioner’s station grounds, to prevent the use of its land for parking of taxicabs and other vehicles and to restrain the individual defendants from going on its premises to solicit patronage and from using its grounds as a hackstand.
The Morris and Essex Railroad Company owns the railroad and petitioner operates it as lessee in perpetuity.…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by73 opinions
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- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. WaltersSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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